Bill Text: IL HB2762 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Lowers the compulsory school age from 7 years to 6 years; makes a related change. Effective July 1, 2013.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB2762 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB2762-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2762
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2762 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 26-1 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/26-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 26-1)
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7 | Sec. 26-1. Compulsory school age-Exemptions. Whoever has | ||||||
8 | custody or control of any child between the ages of 7 and 17
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9 | years (unless the child has already graduated from high school)
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10 | shall cause such child to attend some public school in the | ||||||
11 | district
wherein the child resides the entire time it is in | ||||||
12 | session during the
regular school term, except that if the | ||||||
13 | child turns 7 during the regular school term, that child shall | ||||||
14 | be made to attend that entire school term. Further exceptions | ||||||
15 | are except as provided in Section 10-19.1 , and for during a
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16 | required summer school programs program established under |
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1 | Section 10-22.33B . The ; provided,
that
the following children | ||||||
2 | shall not be required to attend the public schools:
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3 | 1. Any child attending a private or a parochial school | ||||||
4 | where children
are taught the branches of education taught | ||||||
5 | to children of corresponding
age and grade in the public | ||||||
6 | schools, and where the instruction of the child
in the | ||||||
7 | branches of education is in the English language;
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8 | 2. Any child who is physically or mentally unable to | ||||||
9 | attend school, such
disability being certified to the | ||||||
10 | county or district truant officer by a
competent physician | ||||||
11 | licensed in Illinois to practice medicine and surgery in | ||||||
12 | all its branches, a chiropractic physician licensed under | ||||||
13 | the Medical Practice Act of 1987, an advanced practice | ||||||
14 | nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a | ||||||
15 | collaborating physician that authorizes the advanced | ||||||
16 | practice nurse to perform health examinations, a physician | ||||||
17 | assistant who has been delegated the authority to perform | ||||||
18 | health examinations by his or her supervising physician, or | ||||||
19 | a Christian Science practitioner residing in this
State and | ||||||
20 | listed in the Christian Science Journal; or who is excused | ||||||
21 | for
temporary absence for cause by
the principal or teacher | ||||||
22 | of the school which the child attends; the exemptions
in | ||||||
23 | this paragraph (2) do not apply to any female who is | ||||||
24 | pregnant or the
mother of one or more children, except | ||||||
25 | where a female is unable to attend
school due to a | ||||||
26 | complication arising from her pregnancy and the existence
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1 | of such complication is certified to the county or district | ||||||
2 | truant officer
by a competent physician;
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3 | 3. Any child necessarily and lawfully employed | ||||||
4 | according to the
provisions of the law regulating child | ||||||
5 | labor may be excused from attendance
at school by the | ||||||
6 | county superintendent of schools or the superintendent of
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7 | the public school which the child should be attending, on | ||||||
8 | certification of
the facts by and the recommendation of the | ||||||
9 | school board of the public
school district in which the | ||||||
10 | child resides. In districts having part time
continuation | ||||||
11 | schools, children so excused shall attend such schools at
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12 | least 8 hours each week;
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13 | 4. Any child over 12 and under 14 years of age while in | ||||||
14 | attendance at
confirmation classes;
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15 | 5. Any child absent from a public school on a | ||||||
16 | particular day or days
or at a particular time of day for | ||||||
17 | the reason that he is unable to attend
classes or to | ||||||
18 | participate in any examination, study or work requirements | ||||||
19 | on
a particular day or days or at a particular time of day, | ||||||
20 | because the tenets
of his religion forbid secular activity | ||||||
21 | on a particular day or days or at a
particular time of day. | ||||||
22 | Each school board shall prescribe rules and
regulations | ||||||
23 | relative to absences for religious holidays including, but | ||||||
24 | not
limited to, a list of religious holidays on which it | ||||||
25 | shall be mandatory to
excuse a child; but nothing in this | ||||||
26 | paragraph 5 shall be construed to limit
the right of any |
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1 | school board, at its discretion, to excuse an absence on
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2 | any other day by reason of the observance of a religious | ||||||
3 | holiday. A school
board may require the parent or guardian | ||||||
4 | of a child who is to be excused
from attending school due | ||||||
5 | to the observance of a religious holiday to give
notice, | ||||||
6 | not exceeding 5 days, of the child's absence to the school
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7 | principal or other school personnel. Any child excused from | ||||||
8 | attending
school under this paragraph 5 shall not be | ||||||
9 | required to submit a written
excuse for such absence after | ||||||
10 | returning to school; and | ||||||
11 | 6. Any child 16 years of age or older who (i) submits | ||||||
12 | to a school district evidence of necessary and lawful | ||||||
13 | employment pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Section and (ii) | ||||||
14 | is enrolled in a graduation incentives program pursuant to | ||||||
15 | Section 26-16 of this Code or an alternative learning | ||||||
16 | opportunities program established pursuant to Article 13B | ||||||
17 | of this Code.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 96-367, eff. 8-13-09.)".
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